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Eco Etiquette: What's The Environmental Cost Of Cut Flowers?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Veriflora, Green Valentine's Day, Organic Flowers, Flower Pesticides, Heirloom Flowers, Green News, Green Advice, Labor Rights, Eco Etiquette, Cut Flowers, Usda Organic, Green Living, Valentine's Day, Fair Trade Flowers, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. Are cut flowers really ba...

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Organic Advocates Fight 'All-Natural' Claims

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cornucopia Institute, Kraft Foods, Organic Food, Hearthside Food Solutions, All Natural, Peace Cereal, Misleading Food Labels, Organic-Certification, Usda Organic, Fda, Kellogg's, Food Labels, Food News

DES MOINES, Iowa — An organics watchdog group's criticism of a cereal company that describes its products as "all natural" is the latest in the ...

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First Lady's Food Vision 'At Best Fragmented, At Worst A Failure'

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Usda, Michelle Obama, Usda-Organic, USDA Policy, Genetically Modified Food, Obama, Barack Obama, Genetic Engineering, Green News
Wenonah Hauter

Mrs. Obama's vision for healthy food is at best fragmented and at worst a failure. She does not address the root causes of our broken food system, where a few powerful players make all of the decisions about what we eat.

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USDA Organic Standards: Dairy and Livestock Will Get Tighter Rules

Treehugger | Sara Novak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Livestock, Usda Organic Standards, Organic Dairy, Food Politics, Food, Organic Standards, Usda, Usda Organic, Green News

As organic food has grown in popularity so too have the size of organic dairies and farms in this country. And in the last ten years questions have be...

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Is Organic in an End-Game?

Samuel Fromartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Usda Organic, Usda, Organic Food, Patrick Leahy, Organic Products, Organic, Green News
Samuel Fromartz

Writing in 2005, I concluded Organic, Inc. by saying I didn't think organic food would be more than a niche in the overall food market and that the factions within it might well blow it apart. Sadly, in the midst of a deep recession, both assertions seem to be playing out.

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